She couldn’t go home! She couldn’t run away! She would have to see it through, bear all the malice of the girls and her own humiliation and heartbreak. To run away would only give them more ammunition.
Being tested only makes you stronger.
Who will break and who will bend.
— If you ask it of me, I will give you the one ring.
— You offer it to me freely. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desried this. In the place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Queen! [She changes, and she seems very powerful] Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!... [She becomes normal again] I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the west, and remain Galadriel.
...since the difficulties which render it arduous render it also glorious.
Start your life anew.
Understand your problems.
Redefine your priorities.
Verify your self-worth through commitment.
Ignore your detractors.
Value your loved ones.
Embrace every day as if it were your last.
How many hearts could live through all the winters
We've known and still not be cold?
We would always fail. We weren't built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn't change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we travelled.
The world breaks everyone... and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
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